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TIL The Leaning Tower of Pisa was once a Nazi observation post. The allies did not air strike it because of its beauty.

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5YMDQ TIL An instrumental version of the song "Sukiyaki", a story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears will not fall, was played by NASA over the radio for the Gemini VII astronauts as mood music, thereby becoming one of the first pieces of music sent to humans in space
8e1ZK TIL that there are very few figurative statues in honour of enslaved people in the entire Caribbean - only 6!
V0y0 TIL in 2007, the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after being found outside the Israeli Embassy drunk, hands tied, and wearing only a corset and bondage gear. The police only discovered his identity after removing the ball gag from his mouth.
LkbVr TIL that Robert Liston, is the only surgeon with a 300% mortality rate. As he brought down his saw he took his assistant’s fingers off along with the patient’s leg. The patient and his assistant died after their wounds became infected, and the spectator who collapsed was found to have died of fright
x5Ag TIL: the word “synonym” has a synonym and it’s “Poecilonym”